Shortlist Business Book Awards 2019: From Workplace Happiness To Gender Equality

Shortlist Business Book Awards 2019: From Workplace Happiness To Gender Equality

After reading their way through piles of brilliant entries and spending many hours in deliberation and hot discussion, the esteemed judges – including top authors, broadcasters, publishers and people from all areas of business – have whittled down this year’s entrants to a thought-provoking shortlist of books at the forefront of their field.

On 16th January authors, past winners, publishers and journalists gathered at an exclusive event at The Grange Hotel, London to discover who had made the shortlist. A selection of last year’s winners, Campbell Macpherson, author of The Change Catalyst and Tom Bird and Jeremey Cassell, authors of The Leader’s Guide to Presenting, spoke on how being Business Book Award Winners had boosted their businesses and facilitated new career opportunities. Head Judge Alison Jones then took to the stage to announce the 2019 shortlist.

THE AWARDS

156 entries

58 women authors entered – more than ever before – and 24 women as finalists

More books than ever on wellbeing and happiness in the workplace as well as career self-development – showing the trend to drive self-improvement

Books on company culture and ethics – reflection of changing awareness around consumer and employee expectations

The Business Book Awards highlight the quality and variety of business books in the market. They offer industry-wide recognition to new and established authors writing on a multiplicity of subjects for a diverse readership, with no barriers to entry; we welcome entries from publishers and all authors published in the UK.

The winners of the 2019 Business Book Awards in each category – as well as the overall winner – will be announced at a glittering awards ceremony attended by leading names in the business and publishing worlds on 26th March 2019 at The Grange Hotel, London.

The judges of the 2019 Business Book Awards are delighted to announce the much-anticipated shortlist for this year’s event…

The global business book market is growing faster than ever before, with millions of titles being sold in the UK every year. This is partly due to changes in business itself: at the end of 2017, 5.7 million SMEs made up over 99% of all businesses in the UK. While a selection of the big names of big business continues to publish high profile books, it is entrepreneurs – the founders and owners of these burgeoning small businesses – and other experts who are writing books in ever greater numbers.

This has been supported by developments in both the publishing industry and consumer interest. With more budding entrepreneurs the consumer demand for business books has risen, resulting in a 7% increase in the sale of business books and 18% increase in self-help last year. Readers of business and self-development books have an ever-increasing choice of titles, as authors who might not have been offered contracts by traditional publishers (once a barrier to entering the publishing market) are now easily able to self-publish their works or use the services of hybrid publishers to produce and distribute their books in print, e-book and audio formats.

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